Confabulations
  • Published: 5 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9780141984957
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $16.99

Confabulations

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'One of the most influential intellectuals of our time' Observer

'Language is a body, a living creature ... and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and political discourse today. Also containing Berger's own drawings, notes, memories and reflections on everything from Albert Camus to global capitalism, Confabulations takes us to what is 'true, essential and urgent'.
  • Published: 5 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9780141984957
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $16.99
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About the author

John Berger

John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels & stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of art criticism. His first novel, 'A Painter of Our Time', was published in 1958, & since then his books have included the novel 'G.', which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, & he now lives in a small village in the French Alps.

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Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible
What Time Is It?
Smoke
The Red Tenda of Bologna
Understanding a Photograph
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Praise for Confabulations

His writing ... has changed the way many of us see the world ... Berger has that rare and wonderful gift of being able to make complex thoughts simple

Kate Kellaway, Observer

John Berger teaches us how to think, how to feel, how to stare at things till we see what we thought wasn't there. But above all he teaches us how to love in the face of adversity. He is a master

Arundhati Roy

One of the greatest thinkers in postwar Britain

Guardian

He handles thoughts the way an artist handles paint

Jeanette Winterson

Berger is terrific ... Brilliant

Scotsman